June 2019
On the 17th to 19th of June, National United Coalition organised a consultation to respond to the list of issues for CRPD parallel report by India. Among the facilitators were Jeeja Ghosh, Nandini Ghosh, Amba Salelkar, Kuhu Das, Arman Ali, Rajiv Rajan and founder, director, Rising Flame, Nidhi Goyal.
On the first day, Nidhi facilitated the discussions around marginalised and unheard disabilities and also the disability groups that are marginalised by their caste, religions and sexuality. On the second day of the consultation, she also facilitated the discussions around Article 15- Freedom from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Article 16 – Freedom from exploitation, violence and abuse and Article 17 – Protecting the integrity of the person of the CRPD.
